{"id":1846,"date":"2005-11-18T01:07:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T06:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/up_is_down\/"},"modified":"2005-11-18T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T06:07:30","slug":"up_is_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/up_is_down\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in <a title=\"Statement by the Press Secretary on Congressman Murtha's Statement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/11\/20051117-7.html\">today&#8217;s White House<\/a> would a man with the following on his resume be charged with being inclined to &#8220;surrender to the terrorists.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/murtha\/awards.shtml\">Military Service Awards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Distinguished Service Medal of the United States Marine Corps, upon his retirement from the Marine Corps Reserves for 37 years of distinguished service to his country, 1990.<br \/>\nDistinguished Service Medal, Pennsylvania&#8217;s highest honor, 1977.<br \/>\nMeritorious Service Medal, Pennsylvania&#8217;s second-highest honor, 1976.<br \/>\nBronze Star with Combat V, 1966.<br \/>\nPurple Heart, 1966.<br \/>\nPurple Heart, second award, 1966.<br \/>\nVietnamese Cross of Galantry, 1966.<br \/>\nAmerican Spirit Honor Medal of the Marine Corps Recruit Department, 1952.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, if ever I saw a profile of a man predisposed to flee from danger, this is it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/up_is_down\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Up Is Down\"><p>Only in today&#8217;s White House would a man with the following on his resume be charged with being inclined to &#8220;surrender to the terrorists.&#8221; Military Service Awards: Distinguished Service Medal of the United States Marine Corps, upon his retirement from the Marine Corps Reserves for 37 years of distinguished service to his country, 1990. Distinguished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}